By this celestial sign

By this celestial sign
We the Baptizer know,
And all baptiz’d with love Divine
The self-same token show:
On them the Spirit of grace
Descends, and still abides,
And fills with fruits of righteousness,
And to his glory guides.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the holy Ghost.’—[John 1,] v. 33." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 326.
Publishing: Public Domain